The vehicular entrance to the property features our interpretation of a municipal roundabout. At its centre, there is a clipped Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Umbraculifera’…

The Dutch Garden is on the western end of the house and makes a setting for our drawing room.

Through a brick arch, we find the south front of the house. Facing south is The Kings Walk, designed to be seen from the house as a formal enfilade of three lawns…

Opposite the Orangery is a west-facing border bound by tall hedges. At its centre is a wooden Summer House with a shingle tiled roof with a seat to welcome you.

The Sunk Garden is as expected sheltered from the wind, here are a series of raised beds, alpine troughs, a square pond at its centre with a plinth supporting a modern sculpture by Bill Cordaroy.

From the large, covered pergola we enter the Exotic Garden with its fountain cleverly discharging its water inwards rather than outwards.

Where once there were fields and open country trees have turned this into a woodland where many interesting plants find the shelter and fecundity but the stars are a large and ever-growing collection of Hydrangeas.

The Desert Wash is designed to resemble parts of Arizona where it probably only rains once or twice a year, but when it does rain it floods and great rushes of water channel through the landscape.

The Mediterranean Garden is a series of south-facing terraces, each backed by the shelter of heat-retaining red brick walls. Two plants, in particular, cause much excitement here.

South of the Dutch Garden is a meditative tranquil space containing sixteen standard Catalpa bignonoides.

Here in spring, the garden awakes with early bulbs, including a large variety of Snowdrops, winding our way through a grove of Silver Birch, a Wildlife Pond appears.

The Apple Walk has old varieties of espaliered apple trees with a carpet of Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ at their feet, before passing through a Wild Flower Meadow with a wildlife pond.

Close by is another borrowed view. Happisburgh Lighthouse is seen through a porthole cut in the sheltering trees.

Through the monolithic Millennium gates, designed to celebrate the Millennium but erected in 2012, the East Park contains an Arboretum with many rare or unusual trees.

Built in 2012 this is now maturing with walls clad in many rare climbers. A glasshouse (unheated) is home to seasonal displays from spring bulbs to Nerines.

Vegetables grown in no-nonsense rows but, arranged with flair, flowers to draw in pollinators and herbs to enhance the whole.

Here Clematis and climbing Roses unite in the perfect partnership with Paeonies underplanted with spring bulbs and later Cosmos or Cleomes or whatever takes our fancy.

To the east end of the house, we find the Glasshouse Garden. In three sections divided by cordon ‘hedges’ of Apple trees and arches clad in the climbing Rose ‘Maigold’.

Around both tea rooms, serving light lunches and afternoon teas, are various outside seating areas to rest and refresh.